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The top prize for women taking part in next March’s Women of Aviation Worldwide Week is a $10,000 CAD scholarship for qualifying female student pilots to continue their flight training. The next week-long effort, March […]

Nav Canada will stop selling printed copies of the Canada Air Pilot (CAP) a year from now. The final print version will be produced for the Sept. 10, 2020 interval. The CAP is already available […]

While the world fleet of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft have remained firmly grounded for six months, Air Canada flew one of its MAXes on 11 training hops in August and early September according to Reuters. […]

At least three Arctic airports have been shipped unusable jet fuel and it’s affecting air service to those communities. An out-of-spec batch of fuel ended up in Paulatuk, Ulukhaktok and Sachs Harbour during the normal […]

Diamond Aircraft’s Diamond Flight Centre is partnering with Fanshawe College, of London, Ont. to create a flight school designed to produce 80 commercial pilots a year with a variety of business skills. Students at the […]

Another relatively inexpensive ADS-B Out option for Canadian pilots who fly to the U.S. should be available soon in Canada. The FAA has granted supplementary type certificate approval to uAvionix for its tailBeacon, which replaces […]

One of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s longest and most complex restoration projects won’t result in a flying airplane. CWH has announced publicly that its Bristol Bolingbroke will be restored to ground run-up condition instead […]

Searchers appear to have found the body of a young pilot who went missing on a training flight near Sherbrooke, Quebec. Hind Barch was on a night solo flight from Mirabel to Sherbrooke  and back […]

It’s not often hitting powerlines is a lucky break but a powered paraglider pilot in Manitoba may owe his life to that chance encounter. RCMP reported via Facebook that about 8:15 p.m. on Thursday a […]

West Wind Aviation has joined the community of Fond du Lac in northern Saskatchewan in calling for major runway improvements at the local airport to handle increased demand for air service. A West Wind ATR […]

Airbus says it can’t afford to meet the bid requirements to supply the RCAF’s new fighter jets so it is withdrawing from the bid process. Airbus, which was offering its Typhoon, said the cost of […]

The first delivery of prescription drugs by drone took place on Salt Spring Island on Aug. 19 as part of Transport Canada’s drone trials and by all accounts it was a success. Indro Robotics, which […]

Nav Canada will radically change the format of NOTAMs on Oct.10 as it moves to the standardized ICAO format. In a news release, the company said the ICAO format is used by most countries and […]

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the family of a well-known commercial operator who died saving his family from a floatplane crash in an Ontario Lake. Jeff Mavor, owner of Lake Country Airways […]

Canada’s last surviving Battle of Britain pilot John Hart has died at the age of 102. Hart was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for a combat career that started in Spitfires in the famous air […]